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Sick bullies cut the hair of a schoolgirl victim as she sat in her Birmingham classroom, her parents have claimed.

And another pupil also allegedly threatened to stab Casey Mahon, 13, during a nightmare ordeal which saw her torment continue even after changing schools.

With students returning to class this week, the frightened teenager sent her father Darren and mother Jo a heartbreaking WhatsApp message. It read: “I don’t want to go to school. I want to stay here with you and Mum. At least here, I’m safe.”

Now brave Casey and her parents have decided to speak out about her ordeal in the hope that it will shine a light on the abuse that countless other children may experience when they walk through the school gates.

“This boy grabbed her outside the school and wouldn’t let her go. He said he was going to stab her.”

Casey

Casey allegedly recorded the threat on the mobile phone her father had given her to help her cope with the bullies. He also gave his daughter a panic alarm in case she was attacked at school.

He said: “I went to the school and they really weren’t doing that much about it.

“They said the child has issues and the dad can’t speak good English, so they would have to get an interpreter but they never sorted it.

“In the end I went to the police. They took a statement but nothing ever came of it.”

St Edmund Campion

The parents claim the most shocking incident took place at St Edmund Campion - where part of her ponytail was cut off. They claim the school later made the parents of the child involved pay for a new haircut.

“She was in a classroom and one of the kids actually cut her hair with a pair of scissors,” said Darren.

“She was so upset that she said she wanted to die.

“The school made the parents pay for her hair to be reshaped. But that wasn’t the point.”